Kaki King is conjuring up some mind-blowing sights to go with the amazing sounds she coaxes out of her instruments with her latest tour and upcoming album, “The Neck is the Bridge to the Body,” which comes to World Cafe Live Jan. 31.

It’s that time of year where we get to make our plans for the biggest night on the town to ring in the New Year. Yeah, we know. Some of you are so, so over the Eve and plan to hunker down somewhere, either by yourself or with a small group of people, and ease into 2015 in a quiet, relaxing and dignified manner. The rest of you are ramping up to wring every last drop of fun out of 2014 and show the first glittery, hazy, blurred pieces of 2015 that you aren’t messing around when it comes to raising the roof.

If the busy streets of Philadelphia aren’t “over the river and through the woods” enough for your liking this yuletide season, you might want to decamp for an evening, a day or even a whole weekend to the more idyllic and picturesque surroundings of Bucks County for some much-needed holiday cheer. The nearbycountryside towns and hamlets are the perfect escape for some memorable holiday shopping, events and sightseeing.